noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gravel/sand/chalk pit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fine
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It will grow well in plain aquarium coarse sand or fine gravel .
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This was to prevent the fine gravel from finding its way through the undergravel plate.
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Cultivation: Very indifferent as to its growing medium, it will even grow in fine gravel or unwashed sand.
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Coarser gravel would not need it, but fine gravel is easier for plants to grow their roots through.
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Jagged irregular vibrations up the line suggest gravel and stones, small regular vibes mean fine gravel or sand.
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Cultivation: A medium of coarse sand or fine gravel on its own, or with some loam is sufficient.
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They need well-oxygenated water, an absence of pollution and a fine gravel bottom for spawning.
■ NOUN
drive
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Their boots crunched loudly on the frozen gravel drive .
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Tim Skerritt emerged from the trees on to the gravel drive .
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They went around the house by the gravel drive to the east.
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A gravel drive swept between manicured lawns to the portico of the imposing Edwardian house.
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Some of the cops have gone; there are only ten cars and vans on the gravel drive now.
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It wasn't long before she heard Douglas's car draw up on the short gravel drive .
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Crunching up the gravel drive past a clump of rhododendrons, she heard a scuffle in the undergrowth.
path
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The camera followed the woman along a gravel path .
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The giraffes were following gravel paths , were pausing to munch sugar pears from treetops.
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We set off again along the gravel paths .
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There were royal palms and banyan trees and shell and gravel paths across the shaded lawns.
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We drove up a steep gravel path , and soon beheld the well, Tobernalt.
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My footsteps made a satisfactory crunch on a gravel path and I was aware at once that the satyr's footsteps had halted.
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Through the beating of the rain he thought that he could hear the Eel, feet scrabbling on the gravel path .
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A gravel path wanders between them.
pit
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Some men pinched all the wages at the gravel pit .
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Hand carts and horsedrawn carts wait to carry away building supplies brought from the gravel pits of Middlesex.
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Not simply on Tring Reservoirs or the home counties gravel pits do men now sit for a ten pounder anymore.
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The money he had stolen from the gravel pits reposed under his bunk in the houseboat.
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Wet gravel pits are generally recognised as important habitats for wildlife, particularly in view of the increasing drainage of wetlands.
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He crossed the road and went into the gravel pit .
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A gravel pit search by divers was put off yesterday as experts continued checking the area.
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Around Chichester there is an area of gravel and gravel pits of considerable economic importance.
road
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Follow the road west and continue along the gravel road signposted to Askrigg.
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By now we were close to my farm, coasting down off the ridge, the headlights turning the gravel road white.
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He allowed the car to move slowly forward, the tyres crunching against the gravel road .
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Jim Yellow Earring directed me from the gravel road to a one-lane dirt road.
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But Joannides lost time to Yorkshire driver Brian Bell when the route moved on to the gravel roads .
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Further along the gravel road we encountered two old men outside a farmhouse built of stone.
■ VERB
crunch
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He allowed the car to move slowly forward, the tyres crunching against the gravel road.
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Steps crunched on the roadside gravel as some one came around to the back.
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It crunched round on the gravel in front of the house then sped off through the gates scattering white stones.
put
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If you put the gravel under the cloth and wipe the car you get a great mark.
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The other humans said something, and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin.
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Don't put gravel in the base of the pool.
use
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U Undergravel filtration uses the gravel as filter medium.
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Gentlemen, you could very well be using this gravel strip as an emergency landing field for huge bombers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spray of bullets/gravel etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a gravel driveway
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A gravel substrate will also help, using a fine grade to avoid the fry getting stuck.
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Allow for an inch or so of small gravel underneath to help drain moisture from under the block.
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Every major site needs a constant supply of this slurry of cement, stones, gravel , and water.
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His voice sounded like chains being dragged through gravel .
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It grows successfully in silty gravel or a rich mixture of clay or peat with sand or gravel.
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Leased a gravel lot for $ 15 a month and sold used cars.
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The path around the pavilion, which had been mud only weeks before, was now crunchy gravel .
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We set off again along the gravel paths.